Scott Goodman wrote: > Okay, thanks. I understand now how it works, but why is the year removed > when payment is made for another year? Is this simply another fubar > process from NSI? Sounds like fraud to me. I think I will recommend to > my customers who have had this happen that they simply call their credit > card company and reverse the charges.
The year is automatically added by the registry, a renewal is implicitly assumed (By the lack of a delete command). Since the year was automatically added, rather then explicitly added, when the domain is transferred away the registry assumes that the registrar did not receive payment for it. (This would be true in the case of a regisrar that does not block transfer attempts after the end date) It's assumed that when a registrar receives payment, they will explicitly submit the renewal to the registry. This does not always, happen, there's no reason for the registrar to bother since the domain is renewed automagically anyway. This works in NetSol's favor, unless you paid by credit card, or are in the mood to sue them for laughs and giggles. (For the record, if I ever win the lotto, I am going to make a couple lawyer friends of mine rich suing NetSol over fraudulant $35 domains, just to make a point) -- The nice thing about standards, there is enough for everyone to have their own.
